Article originally appeared on dailycaller.com.
A right-wing populist party in Germany celebrated a “historic success” in two state elections Sunday.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party outdistanced Germany’s three governing parties and the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) by taking nearly one-third of the vote in the eastern state of Thuringia, according to the BBC. AfD finished second to the CDU in Saxony by about a point, but led the third place party, left-wing populist Sahra Wagenknecht’s BSW, by about 20.
AfD co-leader Alice Weidel said, “Without us a stable government is no longer possible at all,” according to the BBC. Weidel added that the victory was a “requiem” for Germany’s ruling parties since voters wanted the AfD in government.
Central to the AfD’s as well as the BSW’s message was Germany’s immigration crisis, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Both parties did well at the polls, with the AfD taking 30.6% of the vote and BSW …
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